Coast-to-Coast AM -- UFO Archives and Sightings

 

Just the other day, I saw a request from MUFON to researchers looking to find a home for their files to think of MUFON as that repository. It wasn’t all that long ago that I learned that Dave Marler, along with Mark Rodeghier, were working to not only digitize the Center for UFO Studies files, that included much of material collected by NICAP but to collect the files of other UFO researchers as well. The project is called The National UFO Historical Records Center. For those interested, the APRO files are still in the hands of a family member but steps are being taken to retrieve them for the Center. Those files would be a great asset.

Clas Svahn in Sweden, has been collecting files of both UFO and paranormal interest for his AFU (Archives for the Unexplained). I know that Clas Svahn has been in contact with Dave Marler in Albuquerque to share their information. Philip Mantle, the owner and publisher of the Flying Disk Press in England, has just shipped a great deal of information to Marler.

Marler has organized the effort to create digital files of this vast amount of information. There is an army of volunteers using the latest in technology to convert paper files, audio recordings, and all other kinds of collected material into a form that can be used for online research purposes. Although it is in its infant stage, a great deal of material has already been digitized.

MUFON’s effort is known as Project Aquarius. The name, and not MUFON’s project, is somewhat problematic (Project Aquarius being one of the first of the discredited MJ-12 documents). I do know that some researchers have donated material to the project including the estates of Len Stringfield and Bob Pratt.

A sighting that I would add to an archive took place on April 7 of this year. The witness in Skowhegan, Maine, said that he had been studying glowing orb UFO sightings and wondering why they seemed to fly in triangular formations. He had been working at the computer for about two hours, when he noticed something in the sky that resembled the objects of his research.

He said that the object was green, and looked as if it was triangular shaped. He heard no sound, said the lights were fluctuating as opposed to flashing and it was floating across the sky.

He had created a circuit various components including fishing magnets with the idea of generating a high Tesla magnetic field. He routed it through his computer. He believes that this might have unraveled part of the UFO mystery, the suggestion being that he had created an EM field like those reported in many UFO sightings.

Finally, from Broomfield, Colorado, the witness said that he noticed an object that changed color on April 3 of this year. He said that he was looking west, over Boulder, Colorado, and watched the object for ten minutes. He said that it was circular, that it changed color and vanished after those ten minutes.

The Bloomfield, Colorado UFO

The UFO seemed to be shaped like that reported in the Japanese Air Line 1628 case from November 17, 1986. The pilot in that case reported a UFO that was confirmed by radar at the time. I provided a chapter about the sighting in The Government UFO Files, for those interested in the whole story. I will note here that I did interview John Callahan, who was the chief FAA investigator on the JAL case. The drawing made by the pilot of the jet looked like the object in the pictures taken in Colorado.